If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
67
Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
14
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
57
The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
116
The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
16
Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
17
When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
199
If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
114